I’m having difficulty uploading the video file directly so here’s the link to a taped conversation between Jacques Derrida and Raymond Williams: http://keywords.pitt.edu/videos/video_10.html

I found this video while doing a bit of background research on the Start Hall essay, Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms, which engages extensively with Williams’s definition of culture. The University of Pittsburgh has this thorough and helpful online resource for understanding Williams’s work and specifically the concept of “key words.” Site url: http://keywords.pitt.edu/index.html

I enjoyed the taped conversation for showing a glimpse of these two monumental scholars discussing the typical difficulties (and benefits) of conferences. They are speaking after the Linguistics of Writing Confernce held in 1986 in Glasgow. The discussion also turns to how the English language dominates the academic exchange of ideas and the role of the American academy as a gatekeeper to widely-circulated scholarship.